Word: metros
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News travels fast on the London Underground during the morning rush hour. On a typical day, only commuters taking to the capital's subway trains before 9 a.m. can get hold of a copy of Metro, the free daily newspaper piled high in racks near the station entrance. Metro is a popular title, and copies are snapped up quickly. So getting a newspaper after 9 a.m. usually means paying for it - which a declining number of Britons seem prepared to do. Scanning his Metro while awaiting a train to work, Jonathan Cole, a 26-year-old stockbroker, sniffs at actually...
...Memorial (the museum is down the block) and the Thurgood Marshall Center--a building that was the nation's first YMCA for blacks and Langston Hughes' home during the '20s. The tour costs $10 and meets the first and third Saturdays of the month at the U Street/ Cardozo Metro station at 13th and U streets...
...outdoor-ad magnate pasted the team's A logo on 480 billboards throughout the Los Angeles metro area. "We're not trying to sell a city," says Moreno. "We're selling Angels baseball, period." He has tapped into the region's booming Hispanic population by ramping up Spanish- language advertising and signing Latino stars like Guerrero and pitcher Bartolo Colon. The Angels say they doubled the percentage of Hispanic fans over the past four years and have attracted more season ticketholders from Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, beyond the team's base. In-stadium advertising revenues have more...
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino sent a letter to the Harvard University Civil Rights Project last week contesting the results of a study it released in April, which found that African Americans and Hispanics do not feel welcome in Metro Boston...
Entitled “We Don’t Feel Welcome Here: African Americans and Hispanics in Metro Boston,” the study polled over 400 African American and Hispanic adults in the Metro Boston area. Eighty percent of those polled said that racial discrimination is a somewhat or very serious problem...